Do you know the cost
Hatred, discrimination
Rot society
Licensing vile factions
To spew ugly rhetoric
We hear this danger
From the pinnacle to base
Brothers and sisters
Singled out for their difference
Treated as misfits…pariahs
Leadership for all
A political promise
Faded at “I will”
We’re racing to the bottom
Tethered to an ignorant
Explain your blindness
Your willingness to sell out
Friends and family
On the words of a blowhard
Who we now call President
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Threats of violence,
Assassination condoned
Where is his outrage!
He stokes the fires of hatred
Ignoring consequences
This is disgusting
And must be squashed abruptly,
He’s clearly not fit!
Still crowds are cheering for him
Egging on his fickle rants
They are lunatics
Claiming to be patriots,
When did we devolve.
This election has choices
And Trump must not be the one!
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Neither ignorance
Nor arrogance are virtues
A raving madman
Still in the end he’s human
The Anti-Christ he is not
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
I sat to pray
And screams of hate
Shattered the peace.
I question what I believe!
How can I prescribe to something
That judges…most un-Christlike,
The heart and soul of another;
Claiming to know the mind of God
And to speak with certain authority
On His behalf.
How hypocritical this seems!
Christ did not judge the beggar,
Nor the Samaritan;
He loved them both
And that was his lesson.
Sadly, you seem to have been deaf,
For you judge, most cruelly
Those that do not fit your view.
You proclaim to the Heavens your Christianity,
But clearly have forgotten the words of Christ
Written so plainly in Mark 12:31:
“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
There is none other commandment greater than these.”
Surely you must be filled with self-loathing,
For treating another soul with such contempt
Defies God’s most precious command.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Savage is mankind
Seeing only difference
Color, religion
Anything to condone hate
In our feeble human minds
Time has not changed us
We are still just as savage
As our ancestors
Dressed in our finest clothing
We’re simply fooling ourselves
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
I see the beauty
Surrounding in rainbow hues
Muted by the pain
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
We have regressed.
What little progress we’ve made
Has been erased by hatred
And fools thrashing for power.
Watch the news,
See and hear the racist tools
Drooling over every word
Spewed by their xenophobic christ.
He has no answers,
He has no substance,
Yet they follow blindly
Like fairytale mice.
There is danger in words
Stoked by the fire of ego.
We are told to be afraid…
That threats loom in the shadows,
But this peril does not come from people of color,
Or Muslims,
Or gays;
No, the greatest danger
Comes from within.
McCarthy must be smiling from the grave
As his new disciple takes the stage.
From Hell surely he must be pleased.
God help us all.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Hate is hate is hate
Whether homophobia
Or misogyny
Someone is bound to be hurt
With scars lasting a lifetime
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Blood red,
The rainbow bleeds
A river born of hate.
You dare not question God,
He is perfect,
He is perfection by your own admission.
How then are they an abomination?
Are they not created by God,
Are they not flesh and blood and bone,
Are they not born,
Do they not die?
You…yes you are the blasphemers!
You will swim in the lake of fire on judgement day!
How dare you question God!
How dare you judge His perfect creations,
Taking their lives as if they were nothing.
If God truly is omnipotent,
Then they are just as worthy in His eye as you are,
Deserving the respect,
The honor
And the love
Afforded to all the children of God.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Reviled in the public’s eye
Acknowledged in back alleys and darkened rooms
Color, race and creed are offered up as fodder
In this election year repulsiveness has reared its head
Staining our image in the eyes of the world
Maybe this was the ugly secret we needed to keep hidden
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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